Willow Pointe
July 2014 Volume 10, Number 7
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President's Message ANNUAL MEETING FOLLOW-UP
The Annual Meeting was held on May 15th and attended in person by 19 Homeowners. Due to the collection of Proxies, we were able to have enough attendance (10% of the Community – 58 people) to make quorum and hold the meeting. First, thanks SO MUCH to both the people who attended and to those who sent in their Proxies. I and the Board appreciate tremendously your help here. Once again, those in attendance were able to watch my PowerPoint presentation on the State of the Association. One person was quoted as saying it was, “a crowning achievement of digital media.” Also, we re-elected by acclamation Scott Ward and Angie Wilson to the Board of Directors to their current positions for another 3 year sentence/term (see below). Once again, thanks to everyone who attended and those who attended in spirit. POOL OPENING PARTY Only days after our election, Angie Wilson and I worked our tails off setting up and cooking hot dogs and serving ice cream at the pool for opening day. We had about 90 or so people in attendance and served up about 150 hotdogs and a bunch of Frito Pies. Ron Palencia brought his wife’s famous chili and if you weren’t there early, you didn’t get to savor the awesomeness. Thanks to all those who came out and please keep coming to the pool all season long!! MUD ELECTION AND SEWER TOUR Ron Palencia, Bonnie Gunther, and I were elected to the MUD#10 Board at the recent election. Following this, I was
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able to go on a very memorable tour of the sewer system that provides us with working plumbing and drinkable water. It started at one of the two pump stations in Willow Pointe and Winchester Country where underground water in our well is drawn up from the ground, chlorinated, and sent to our homes. The water tower has a tank at the top and that provides pressure so the water comes out with a little force generated by gravity. Then it goes to our homes. And some of this water is in our toilets. And then we ‘go’…and the tour takes a different direction. The sewage is sent to the water treatment plant in Winchester Country (by their pool) via two lift stations that change the elevation of the stuff in pipes and let it flow. You know what direction it flows based on the cliché. Anyhow, once in the water treatment facility, solid, non-organic materials are removed by a big filter. Then 3 big open air tanks in tandem work to digest the material. It then is chlorinated for a period of time and then de-chlorinated so it can be released into the bayou system. Total travel time for the water…only 4 hours. I asked what worked so well last time that made our water system not go down when Ike hit. Most systems are operating in tandem with backup power systems in place. I was told that they had personnel at the site during the storm to make sure that any issues that happened were addressed immediately. Again, a colossal failure could happen, but it was reassuring to see that Advantage Water (now TOPS) was prepared since on the Gulf Coast, another storm is not an if but a when.
Willow Pointe Homeowners Association Newsletter - July 2014
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